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Books
 Possible Lessons
Gulf Island Alphabet (Bronwyn Preece)

· Write own Onomatopoeia

· Alphabet Book
The Black Book of Color (Menena Cottin)
  • Descriptive Writing
  • Visualization
It is Okay to be Different (Todd Parr)
  • Teaching about diversity
Thank You Mr. Falker
(Patricia Polacco)
  • predictions
  • Story development
  • The students could write a short story about a time when someone helped them.
Imagine a Day/Imagine a Night/Imagine a Place
(Sara Thompson
  • visualization
Shin-Chi’s Canoe
Shi-Shi-Elko
(Nicola Campbell)
  • What if
  • Picture walk (remove text) and write own story
Stardines
(Jack Prelutsky)
  • Create your own animals
Oh! The Thinks You Can Think
(Dr. Seuss)
  • Draw own imaginary creature
  • Write a rhyme
  • Bar graph/chart the colors/animals
Lost and Found (Oliver Jeffers)
  • What can you pack in a suitcase
  • Lost Poster/Found Poster
  • Science: Habitats
  • Writing: Draw on experience (getting lost)
Today I feel Silly (Jamie Lee Curtis)
  • Classroom temperature check
  • Class book about moods
  • Teaching adjectives
Have you Filled a Bucket Today?
Fill a Bucket
(Carol McCloud)
 Character Education:
  • Building a positive classroom environment
  • Setting classroom expectations
Chrysanthemum
(Kevin Henkes)
 Lesson Ideas
Up and Down (Oliver Jeffers)
  • Create a new adventure for the boy and the penguin
  • Create a feeling bubble for the penguin and the boy to talk about their feeling ( feelings as interpreted by students)
  • Introduce animals (penguins) unit.
  • Pair Share: Mock interview, using microphones to answer questions such as “How do you feel?”
Seven Blind Mice (Ed Young)
  • Making inferences and predictions using the art work
  • Visualizing and drawing pictures using clues from the book
  • Create something strange with things. Write clues for your friends to figure out what your creation is
  • Discussion of art work/illustrations
The Paper Bag Princess (Robert Munsch)
  • Twist of conventional fairy tale: Change character or plot
  • Write from the stance of one of the characters
  • Art work
  • Beauty is skin deep. Discuss shallow characters


Authors
 Possible Lessons
Todd Parr
http://www.toddparr.com/fun/
 Celebrating differences
Roald Dahl
http://www.roalddahl.com/
 Write a letter to the author
J.K. Rowling
http://www.jkrowling.com/en_GB/
Patricia Polacco
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
 Lessons ideas
Hans and Margaret Ray
(Curious George)
http://thereycenter.org/Welcome.html

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/cgsite/history.shtml
Jamie Lee Curtis
http://www.jamieleecurtisbooks.com/
 Connections to life experiences
Shell Silverstein
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html
 Design a poem based on an illustration (Shel drew and then wrote)